Psychology and mental health

Perception of affect attunement by adolescents

Article Abstract:

Analysis of research results show that adolescents are able to perceive and identify the different levels of affect attunement in others and that female adolescents identify affect attunement better than male adolescents. Affect attunement is the process of recognizing, experiencing and adjusting affective state to match and share with others' subjective states. The ability to affectively attune reflects early parent-child relationships and will determine the ability to initiate and establish healthy and harmonious interpersonal and emotional relationships.

Adolescents who offend

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The tendency of adolescents to offend is a part of their developing process and should be viewed in a normative context. Some degree of law breaking is normal and decreases with maturity. The majority of teenage offenders come from psychopathic families. Alcoholism and drug abuse, bullying in institutions, and violence in the family cause adolescent violence. The teenagers have to be taught to take responsibility for the consequences of their actions. They have to be encouraged by adults and helped to become financially independent.

The Growing Up FAST: Families and Adolescents Surviving and Thriving(TM) Program

Article Abstract:

The Growing Up FAST: Families and Adolescent Surviving and Thriving Program, set up to specifically address the problems faced by adolescents, is an effort to usher in harmonious intra-family relationships by mitigating parent-offspring conflicts of interest. Programs such as this will go a long way in preventing community-scale primary, secondary and more serious problems faced by family members.